Third Party Devs have made up their minds about the Wii.

[NJ5]

Procrastinato said:

Netyaroze said:
No you should read carefully I said that I KNOW that they are losing money but I know you dont know why.

/agree

Why is it so impossible to believe that it's the Wii projects that are costing the 3rd parties... you know, like they are stating directly?  Look at the sales of the HUGE numbers of Wii titles that some of the publishers quoted in this thread have put out.  Those games cost $5-7 million on average EACH to make, according to those same publishers previous statements, and our "guess" than HD games cost $20M on average.  If you look at their sales numbers, it doesn't seem like there's any way they could have recovered those funds, especially given that revenue per unit on Wii games is less than that of HD games.

They need to consolidate, and make fewer, better Wii games.  That's exactly what they have stated they are doing.

I doubt many of those Wii games actually cost $5-7 million (I mean from the publishers which push out mass quantities of Wii shovelware like Ubisoft).

$5-7 million should be the cost for a decent game with a good amount of content, no?

Otherwise, yeah, the industry is doomed.